Mgr. Anna Světlíková, Ph.D.

2012   PhD in American Literature, Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague

PhD dissertation: "Typology as Rhetoric: Reading Jonathan Edwards"

2006/2007  Fulbright researcher, Jonathan Edwards Center, Yale University

2004   MA in English & American Studies and Dutch, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague

 

Publications

2024 "Environmental Imagination in Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping and Lila." Ostrava Journal of English Philology 16.2 (2024): 45-60.

2019 "Jonathan Edwards, John Dennis, and the Religious Sublime: A Consideration of Edwardsean Terror." New Perspectives in English and American Studies, vol. 1: Literature, edited by Michał Choiński and Małgorzata Cierpisz; Jagellonian University, Kraków: 323-336.

2017 "Allegory and Typology," "America," "Colonies," "Perry Miller." Entries in The Jonathan Edwards Encyclopedia, edited by Harry S. Stout, Kenneth P. Minkema, and Adriaan C. Neele; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2017: 17-18, 18-20, 101-102, 379-380. 

2015 "Jonathan Edwards Goes Mahican." A View from Elsewhere: Proceedings of the International Conference, June 20 –22, 2014, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic, edited by Marcel Arbeit and Roman Trušník; Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci, 2014: 171-184.

2013 "Edwards’ Natural Typology and the Problem of Subjectivity." Jonathan Edwards Studies 3.1 (2013): 27-42.

2010 "Type, Allegory, Symbol: Jonathan Edwards and Literary Traditions." American and British Studies Annual 3 (2010): 169-181.

2009 "Alternative Viewpoint: The Literary Life of Jonathan Edwards." In: Understanding Jonathan Edwards: An Introduction to America’s Theologian, edited by Gerald R. McDermott; New York: Oxford University Press, 2009: 145-149.

1. Světlíková, Anna. 2024. “Environmental Imagination in Marilynne Robinson‘s Housekeeping and Lila.” Ostrava Journal of English Philology. 16(2), 45-60.

1. Světlíková, Anna, 2020. Jonathan Edwards, John Dennis, and the Religious Sublime: A Consideration of Edwardsean Terror. Krakow: Jagellonian University Press. ISBN 978-83-233-4685-2.
2. Světlíková, Anna, 2015. Jonathan Edwards Goes Mahican. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého. ISBN 978-80-244-4396-6.

I will gladly supervise theses related to American literature or British literature. I am also interested in literature in a historical perspective, in the intersection of literature and Christian thought, and of literature and environmental thinking. 

In 2025/2026 I am supervising theses on J. F. Cooper/Karl May, H. D. Thoreau, Henry James/Oscar Wilde, C. S. Lewis, Sylvia Plath, Solomon Northup/Harriet Jacobs, Charlotte Brontë, Ch. Perkins Gilman, Bram Stoker/Stephenie Meyer, Liam O'Flaherty, Ernest Hemingway, Nella Larsen, and J.R.R. Tolkien.

• Stadler Jakub | bakalářská práce | 2.7.2025
  George Steiner on Cultivating Humanity
• Lešnerová Eva | bakalářská práce | 25.4.2025
  T. S. Eliot in the reactions of selected modernist authors
• Shaw Linda | bakalářská práce | 6.12.2024
  Representation of the body and feelings of alienation in selected texts by Sylvia Plath
• Černovská Tereza | bakalářská práce | 11.7.2024
  Prejudice and inequality in the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling
• Kubincová Barbora | bakalářská práce | 25.4.2024
  Beyond Conventions. Exploring Marital Dynamics and Female Strategies in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility
• Beťková Markéta | diplomová práce | 24.4.2024
  Comparative Study of Julie Otsukas novels in the Context of Asian American Literature
• Vobejda Dominik | bakalářská práce | 14.7.2023
  Comparison of the Band of Brothers series with the book by S. E. Ambrose